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Jo, a queer, trans nonbinary disabled Taiwanese American person, in a Black t-shirt and blue pants, seated on a metal staircase.

Keynote Speaker: Jo Hsu

"Storying (Un)Commonplaces: Writing toward Places Not-Yet-Here"

Jo Hsu (They/Them) is an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, where they are also core faculty in Asian American Studies and a faculty affiliate of LGBTQ Studies. Their research uses narrative to bridge gender studies, disability studies, and critical race studies, examining how expectations around racialized, gendered bodily norms affect the life chances and opportunities of those excluded by normative social scripts. The questions driving their work are: What can the field(s) of rhetoric do to foster connection and care across difference? And, what stories must we tell to dismantle and remake worlds conducive to one another’s thriving? Their book, forthcoming from Ohio State University Press, offers a theory of storytelling as a means of mapping networks of un/belonging and of forging mobile, dynamic sites of care. Their writing has appeared in major disciplinary journals, and their creative nonfiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Most of their work can be accessed via www.vjohsu.com. (Photo credit: Krystal Ruiz)

 

 

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